Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge City Council voted last week to urge Cambridge voters to oppose a referendum question calling for the permanent closure of the state's two nuclear plants...
Councillor Alice K. Wolf opposed the resolution. "I feel the nuclear waste issues and the nuclear safety issues are not being adequately addressed," she said. "There is no solution for nuclear waste--there just...
...social sense, but it seemed applicable to a wide range of things that we started doing in this century and that seemed like a good idea at the time, but now persist even when circumstances have changed and the habits have become self-defeating." Callenbach mentions things like nuclear plants and chemical fertilizers that end up polluting lakes and streams. "I'm not antitechnology, but there are a lot of things that a rational society probably would not have much...
...little more likely. "We have been messing about with the atmosphere in a truly Faustian way. That and the garbage on the shores have put people in a rotten humor." But what will really "be the key to the evolution of Ecotopia" will be a catastrophe at a nuclear plant. "One of these days a nuke is going to blow in the country, as surely as the sun goes up and comes down. It's practically bound to happen, and it will put a whole new complexion on environmental politics...
While belatedly admitting past horrors, weapons officials refuse to accept responsibility in their single- minded mission to make nuclear bombs at all costs. Charges mount that radioactive wastes are poisoning the air and water and contaminating residents near facilities. And the costs of cleaning up and making aging facilities safe are staggering. See Environment...